Production[]
Episode: 30
Date: February 23, 1977
Time: 49:38
Musical Director:
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography:
Producer: Mark Stuart
Director: Mark Stuart
Writer: Benny Hill
Episode[]
- Monologue: Eskimo Nell
- Candid Camera
- Villain of the Year
- The George And Dragon Inn
- Quick-Change Artist
- The Reluctant Bridegroom
- Guest: Love Machine
- Network Apology
- Victorian Scandals
- Guest: Love Machine
- The Best Is Yet To Come
- Doing The Flash
- Double Date
- Tag: Scouts and Guides Annual Fete
Highlights[]
- Villain of The Year
- The Reluctant Bridegroom
- Victorian Scandals
- Scout Jamboree
Cast[]
- Benny Hill
- Henry McGee
- Jack Wright
- Rita Webb
- Eddie Buchanan
- Jenny Lee-Wright
- Sue Upton
- Terry Dane
- Eddie Connor
- Jenny Westbrook
- Anita Graham
- Ken Sedd
- Stephanie Marrian (uncredited)
Quotes[]
- Fred Scuttle - "It is a transvestite of justice!"
- Fred Scuttle (imitating a criminal) - "Me stab a copper? I was cleaning my nails with a bread knife and he ran into it... twelve times... backwards!!"
- Big Red - "Why should I help them with their investigations? I never helped him with his robberies."
- Big Red - "He said, "I'm booking you for an immoral act!" I said, "Me? When?" He said, "How about next Friday?""
- Big Benny - "And now a subject near and dear to our hearts... Police brutality. In particular, that of the copper breaking free of Bomber Smith's fingers... With his ribs."
- Zipper Martin (as Al Jolson) - "Don't tell the landlord we have fleas. We're not allowed pets."
- Ted Tingley (thinking) - "Look at that face. It looks as if it wore out two bodies...."
- Elsie Bailey - "Oh, I'm wearing black on account of my dearly departed husband."
Ted Tingley - "Oh, and may I ask when he departed?"
Elsie Bailey - "Ten minutes ago, but he won't be back by six."
- Elsie Bailey - "I'm warning you. My husband could be coming home soon."
Ted Tingley - "Well, I'm not doing anything."
Elsie Bailey - "I know, but if you are, you better get started!"
- Harry - "It must be a face, it's got ears on it!"
- Edie - "Oh, I couldn't go to a movie like that! If I saw a movie like that, i'd have to hide my face."
Harry - "Well, that's an idea, ain't it!"
- Harry - "If we go out to eat, don't go mopping up your gravy with your bread."
Paddy - "A lot of people mop up gravy with their bread."
Harry - "Not off other people's plates!"
Trivia[]
- Lorraine Doyle's first appearance on the series, but she appears as a member of Love Machine
- Terry Dane seems a bit slow with his overcoat in "Doing The Flash." Although Benny, Henry, Eddie and Terry are wearing briefs underneath, he's still showing some pubic hair.
- The Scout Jamboree tag seems to have been filmed at the same location as Bionic Boy.
- Selected sketches from this episode appear in "One Night Video Stand" from HBO Home Video.
Sequence[]
- Last Episode: The Bionic Baby
- Next Episode: A Packed Program